Kenneth C. Anderson

Highbury Financial, Inc. provided permanent capital solutions to mid-sized investment management firms. It offered permanent equity capital to fund buyouts from corporate parents, buyouts of founding or departing partners, growth initiatives or exit strategies for private equity funds. The company was founded by Bruce R. Cameron, Bradley R. Forth and Richard S. Foote on July 13, 2005 and was headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Fortis Investment Management USA, Inc. operated as a hedge fund manager and registered investment advisor. The firm offered investment management services to institutional and retail clients around the world. Its investment offerings included a wide variety of actively-managed equity and fixed-income portfolios. The company was founded in 1979 and was headquartered in Boston, MA.

ABN AMRO Asset Management (AAM) is the separately organized U.S. investment management business of ABN AMRO Holding NV (NYSE: ABN). AAM offers a line of global, regional and domestic investment strategies to institutional and individual investors worldwide as segregated accounts, as well as through ABN AMRO mutual funds. The firm is based in Chicago.

Formed in 1998 in Louisville, Kentucky, Veredus Asset Management LLC (VAM) is an independently operated investment management firm.

TAMRO Capital Partners LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Alexandria, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2000 with Alleghany Asset Management, Inc. Alleghany was bought by ABN AMRO Group in February 2001. In June 2007, TAMRO closed on a management-led buyout of the assets of the firm from ABN AMRO Asset Management Holdings, Inc. The current firm assumed the TAMRO name as successor to the original company. The employees of TAMRO now own a majority of the firm through equity participation in TAMRO Management LLC. Minority owners are Northern Lights Midco LLC, who helped finance the management-led buyout, and Stellate Partners LLC, an institutional sales and marketing firm. TAMRO's clients include individuals, high net-worth individuals, corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, Taft-Hartley plans, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, municipalities, public funds, trusts, and limited partnerships. They offer advisory services to wrap sponsors, and provide model portfolio services to several UMA programs. TAMRO also acts as sub-advisor to several mutual funds.